School for Synodality Director invited to be Synod Facilitator indcatholicnews.com/news/50817 via ICN

In BBC radio interview, Card-des. Ratcliffe reveals that Pope’s granted his wish to decline wearing the scarlet robes – as with Card Cantalamessa (OFM Cap) in 2020, he’ll receive the red hat clad in his Dominican habit.

Can’t understand how we’ve ended up debating euthanasia when proper support for palliative and hospice care isn’t provided….

*Not a single deaf or disabled persons organisation* supports the drive for assisted dying - which they think will be used as a replacement for public services Parliamentary briefing here: dpac.uk.net/2024/10/choice… News story here: disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peopl…

🎙️@JesuiticalShow's latest guest - the School for Synodality! Avril Baigent discusses all things Synodal with Ashley McKinless & @ZacDayvis - from her experiences as a Synod.va facilitator in Rome, to practical advice for improving parish cohesion ⬇️ buff.ly/48fRo01

🚨 The new government committed to end the need for emergency food. With 9.3 MILLION people facing hunger and hardship, today’s Budget was a major moment to start delivering this. 👀 So, what was said? #Budget2024

I do not share the reported enthusiasm for the Assisted Dying Bill. And it is painfully late to be bringing forward a draft bill, with so little time ton consider its contents. theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

Content warning: Assisted dying. Please only engage with this if it is safe for you. We oppose the bill on assisted dying, which is being rushed into its second reading in parliament. We need help to live, not to die. Full statement: buff.ly/4hEgidQ Not Dead Yet UK

“We’re talking about coercion almost on a state level.” Liz "blue tick" Carr argues that legalising assisted dying risks giving disabled, terminally ill and elderly people who ‘feel like they are a burden’ the impression that they have ‘no choice’ but to end their lives. Andrew Marr

“How would anyone know if someone had been coerced [into assisted dying]?” Victoria Derbyshire presses Christine Jardine, Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh West and supporter of the latest assisted dying bill, about the safeguards for the proposed new law. #Newsnight

No one can understand the mental stress of battling the UK health system unless they live it. Very few healthy people would believe how broken it is. Let alone the care system We cannot allow assisted death until the system to provide assistance to live is working. End of

We need to show we can do better at assisted living for those in need of care before deciding whether to legislate on ways to die. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Gordon Brown says daughter’s death showed value of a ‘good’ death - as he opposes assisted dying bill and calls for commission on palliative care theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

Pope: ‘Synod final document forms part of papal Magisterium’ - Vatican News vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

“As someone who relies on the state for my survival, I have a healthy distrust of giving it any more power over my life than it already has. Though some people want the right to die, many of us are still fighting for the right to exist.” Liz "blue tick" Carr 🔥 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

قدمت السفير د جيلان وهبه عبد المجيد أوراق اعتمادها إلى الرئيس الإيرلندي مايكل د هيجينز كاول سفير فوق العادة ومفوض لدولة فلسطين لدى إيرلندا بعد اعتراف ايرلندا بدولة فلسطين وذلك خلال مراسم رسمية جرت في القصر الرئاسي صباح اليوم تخللها استعراض لحرس الشرف وعزف النشيد الوطني

Nor let us ever forget the 17,000 innocent children in Gaza massacred by Israel these past two years.

We pray for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis, and in thanksgiving for his ministry. He saw the face of Christ particularly in the poor and marginalised, and invited everyone to the joy of an encounter with Jesus.

Le Iglesia en salida sigue saliendo …

En nuestro compartir navideño del 2014, nos presentaron a Monseñor Roberto. Quedamos encantados con su sencillez. Nunca imaginamos que estábamos conociendo a quien sería el nuevo Papa. Los chicos de #Josif #Chiclayo siempre lo recordaremos. Dios lo bendiga 🙏 #leonxvi